Blizzard: Six "Proven Property" Titles by 2014

Please don't rush the masterpiece that is Blizzard.

Until they make a lan playable version of those games I'll never buy one.

I guess you have to wait 70 years.

At least they're bringing out something for us to try,or should I say that it gives us something to do on a boring day.

Wow, one thumb down already? Really you want another SC2 b.net 2.0 Beta? This is what has happened since Activision was in the picture. Rush the games out for our stocks!! If you like that then go ahead and thumb down this one GO FOR IT!! lol

I hate wow with passion but i totally love starcraft 2 and im sure i will love diablo 3, blizzard is THE company for pc gamers just like valve

BioWare >>> Blizzard

Mid 2012 for the next expansion... >_

6 games in 3 years?
the activision in this one is strong...

The great thing about Blizzard games is they don't give them a release date until it's done when it's done and in the can that's when they will tell us it's hitting shelves and not a moment sooner and that's the correct thing to do make a great game then release it i have said it for years PC and no Console game makers have gotten lazy the push out a game when it's not ready and that's how we end up with day one patches the only game i will buy outright before letting them drop to the $20 bin are Blizzard,Bioware,Bethesda and ID games mainly because when i buy those games i know im getting something worth while

That really has nothing to do with activision pretty much since WoW came out blizzard has released about a game a year. all while developing SC2 and Diablo 3 and titan. those games need to come out some time. like the article said, 2 WoW exp packs (they always do about 1 a year), 2 SC2 installments like was was planed during SC2 development. Then Diablo 3 when its finished and later a exp pack.

Not quite a rushed PoS line up for 3 years.

Bring in the cash cow, nyam nyam naym

2 for WoW or Diablo 3? Whatever happened to speculating about "codename Titan", Bliz's next big MMO?

Really? Other than SC2 please name another game Blizzard has released since WoW was released in 2004? WoW came out November of 2004, BC in January of 07, Wrath in December of 08 and Cataclysm in December of 2010. That's about 1 every 2 years.

So Blizz wants to accelerate an expansion every year, but considering with Wrath and Cataclysm they slowed content patches incredibly down for release, not even getting to half the planned content for each xpac.

Why do I get the feeling that these expansions will be nothing more than glorified content patched that will be charged for similar to what EQ did.

I noticed all of the top comments have been thumbed down.
Let me try to get thumbed up...

AMD Bulldozer.

That is all.
This'll probably fail massively though.

Anyway back on topic...
The only game I'm looking forward to is Diablo 3, I've never really been into small-scale war like Starcraft, more a fan of Supreme commander but that's just me.

Also not big on WoW but that's also just me, I tried it out for a few weeks but got bored fast it's just not my kind of game I guess.

2 words "Bulldozer Forever"

I want a new Warcraft, not WOW, proper Warcraft! Just use the starcraft engine and make a new Warcraft! Is it too much to ask?

Blizzard now assumes that all gamers are basement dwellers without life so they don't need lan mode

Second that!!! Forget WoW, WC4 would be great... hell, even another expansion for WC3 would bring in massive profits for Blizzard! When an MMO is set as such, it's fine with me, but when a previously different game turns into an MMO, like WC3 did... it hurts to watch. I pray that it doesn't happen to Mass Effect, Dragon Age and other good RPGs.

Guild Wars 2 will be the only MMO i'll be playing for years to Come..
Guilds Wars 2 is a million times better than WoW..

Rock n' roll racing, the MMO.

Everytime you race you also buy a new song for 99 cents.

*oh crap this idea is too good, expect to see the app stores flooded with games like this too*

What's all this blabber about "rushing"? 5 out of these 6 "titles" are expansion packs. They're only releasing 1 full game.

I guess this is the case where less is more. Compared to a few other game developers/publishers pumping out a dozen half-baked releases a year, plus another dozen of complete and utter crap, with an occasional decent one (gotta give them some credit), I'd rather play one good game for a long time than a dozen run-and-gun-through-and-forget experiences.

I was sort of thinking the same thing. I'm not a huge Starcraft fan myself, but a lot of my friends are and they don't like the fact that each campaign is being sold as a seperate game. So instead of paying $50-$60 to play a full game, someone is paying between $150-$180 to see the whole thing.

And this talk of doing a WoW expansion at "least" once a year? I get the feeling that essentially they plan on making any new raid content a new expansion.

I'm not so sure there will be a new Warcraft ever. I think the way Blizzard treated the franchise with WoW has driven off the hardcore fanbase, of which I was one of.

With their tendency for retconning the story as well as trying to appease the WoW customer who doesn't care about the story, Warcraft overall is in a little bit of trouble. I don't mean WoW itself. Even with the loss of nearly 1 million subscribers, they still have a little over 11 million, although the Q3 numbers will be interesting to hear to see if the slide continues.

But the Warcraft comics were cancelled because of low sales, and a lot of the story content that was cut from WoW played out in the comics instead. There was suppose to be 3 novels that dealt with the events that happened prior to Cataclysm, but so far only the Shattering has been released with no word on the second two novels. The Shattering didn't do all that well sales wise so maybe they canceled the second two. I know at this point halfway into Cataclysm, those novels are sort of pointless anyway.

But the fact that merchandie associated with Warcraft isn't doing well at all, that signifies that the loyal franchise fan has been driven away and I'm not so sure that bodes well for a Warcraft 4.

I don't like WoW, but I used to play the hell out of Warcraft 2 battle.net edition when I was like 12 or 13. My first online gaming experience... have been into online gaming ever since

You might want to take a gander at Blizzard's leaked release plan http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/10/l [...] verything/

At least they don't have to come up with anything new, though Diablo's been in production how many years? They naturally have less "rush" anyway since they aren't chasing bleeding edge graphics.

Annual expansions with each required to reach the next is marketing brilliance. Companies like Sony have been selling "rollup" expansions for the EQ franchise so you can skip a few and not have to drop hundreds to catch up.

After playing diablo 1, starcraft:broodwar and diablo 2 from Blizzard, i cant stand starcraft 2. Everyone has his/her reasons for possitive or negative against the Approach that blizzard has had since the activision union.
I do know im not gonna buy Diablo3, and my reasons for those who care:
-Console version is the main version.
-Graphics look like years old games.
-Skills have been lowered in numbers from diablo 2.
-Characters have been "mutated" from realistic badasses (Nacromancers, Sorcerers, barbarians, amazons, assasins) to kinda... "i want to be epic badass"? (Demon Hunter, Witch Doctor,...Da Fuck is this?).
-Sound cover seems like its lost its atmospheric idea and is now a bit dull.

Well, its just me .

Adding to cats_paw:

- Real-life money auction-house to make the economy even less about how good a player you are and more about how much financial aid you give to $$ard.
- Online-only solo.
- No LAN.
- Guaranteed to be yet more aggressive monetization (eg: realID)